In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas

Mongabay
Oct 24, 2022, 11:42 am425 pts
Plot out all the Indigenous territories in the Amazonian region of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, and you’ll get an idea of just how important conserving these lands is for the rainforest — and thus for the future of the planet. Now map out all the active oil fields in these four countries, and it’s…

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